SPOTLIGHT
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
By David Lehman Thursday, January 16, 2025
SPOTLIGHT
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
By David Lehman Thursday, January 16, 2025
Please, Sir, I Want Some More
Charles Dickens died 150 years ago today
By Our Editors Tuesday, June 9, 2020
“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Movement and Stillness
Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athens
By A. E. Stallings Monday, June 8, 2020
Still Junk Science
How scientific inquiry has been complicit in, or explicitly aligned with, racism and white supremacy
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, June 5, 2020
The Founder and the Epidemic
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, could not save Philadelphia from yellow fever
By Bruce Kilstein Thursday, June 4, 2020
A Masterpiece Born of the Black Death
Boccaccio’s Decameron reminds us to live with gratitude
By Joseph Luzzi Thursday, June 4, 2020
Sweating the Small Stuff
Designing more effective protection for firefighters and healthcare workers
By Rebecca McCarthy Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Let Me Tell You a Story
Audiobooks to disappear into
By Stephanie Bastek Tuesday, June 2, 2020
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
“The Horses” by Ted Hughes
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
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Plus: Samantha Rose Hill follows Thomas Mann to Switzerland, Michael Autrey hunts for porcini, and Megan Craig searches for stability in stone
Plus: Samantha Rose Hill follows Thomas Mann to Switzerland, Michael Autrey hunts for porcini, and Megan Craig searches for stability in stone
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
The Fair Fields 
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
The Art of Tuning In
Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar
By Langdon Hammer Monday, December 2, 2024
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
The Art of Tuning In
Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar
By Langdon Hammer Monday, December 2, 2024
